10/2021-03/2022: Interim Professor for Data Science and Applied Statistics at TU Clausthal
03/2017-09/2020: PhD student in the Statistics and Data Analysis Group
10/2014-02/2017: Studies of Statistical Science (M.Sc.), Bielefeld University
10/2011-09/2014: Studies of Economics (B.Sc.), Bielefeld University
Publications in peer-reviewed journals
Ötting, M., Michels, R., Langrock, R., Deutscher, C. (2023)
"Demand for live betting — An analysis using state-space models" Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, in press
Adam, T., Ötting, M., Michels, R. (2023)
"Markov-switching decision trees" AStA Advances in Statistical Analysis, in press
Ötting, M., Langrock, R., Deutscher, C., Leos-Barajas, V. (2020) "The hot hand in professional darts" Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 183(2): 565-580
"Lasso-based order selection in hidden Markov models: a case study using stock market data", 37th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Dortmund, July 2023
"Predicting play-calls in the NFL using Markov-switching decision trees", 10th MathSport International, Budapest, Hungary, June 2023
"Extending the Dixon and Coles model: an application to women's football data", 7th AUEB Sports Analytics Workshop, Athens, Greece, May 2023
"A varying coefficient state-space model for investigating betting behaviour within in-play markets", 15th CMStatistics, London, UK, December 2022
"A varying-coefficient state-space model for investigating betting behaviour within in-play markets", 36th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Trieste, Italy, July 2022
"Staking and losing in live betting markets: how bookmakers profit", 9th MathSport International, Reading, UK, June 2022
"In-play betting: Are markets efficient and how do bookmakers make profit?", 15th CFE (held online), December 2021
"A copula-based hidden Markov model for classification of tactics in football", New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports (held online), October 2021 (video available at https://youtu.be/X2m40JSS2M0)
"Regularisation in hidden Markov models with an application to football data", 35th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling (held online), July 2021
"Analysing football tactics using high-frequency tracking data", 8th MathSport International (held online), Reading, UK, June 2021 (video available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y7_2fVxI0U)
"Analysing football tactics using high-frequency tracking data", 5th AUEB Sports Analytics Workshop (held online), Athens, Greece, May 2021
"Exploratory analysis of in-game betting dynamics”, Reading Online Sports Economics Seminars, Reading, UK, January 2021 (video availabe at youtu.be/Gx2kaApYpqs)
"Modelling self-reported criminal behaviour using hidden Markov models”, Sociology Seminar Series (held online), Bielefeld, May 2020
"Does the hot hand exist? An analysis of professional darts using state-space models”, Online Seminar of the RSS WMLG, April 2020 (video available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na9WThVh1m0)
"A regularized hidden Markov model for analyzing the 'hot shoe' in football", 12th CMStatistics, London, UK, December 2019
"A regularized hidden Markov model for analyzing the 'hot shoe' in football", Workshop of the Centre for Statistics, Bielefeld, November 2019
"A copula-based multivariate hidden Markov model for modelling momentum in football", 34th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Guimarães, Portugal, July 2019
"Modelling momentum in football", 7th MathSport International, Athens, July 2019
"Performance when stakes are high: do professional darts players keep their cool?", Workshop of the Centre for Statistics, Bielefeld, May 2019
"A copula-based multivariate hidden Markov model for modelling momentum in football", DAGStat, Munich, March 2019
"An analysis of a hot hand effect in professional darts using state-space models", 11th CMStatistics, Pisa, Italy, December 2018
"Modeling Momentum in Soccer", Workshop of the Centre for Statistics, Bielefeld, December 2018
"The Hot Hand in Professional Darts", 33rd International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Bristol, UK, July 2018
"The Hot Hand in Professional Darts", Workshop of the Centre for Statistics, Bielefeld, June 2018
"Evaluating fraud detection systems in sports betting using bivariate distributional regression", Workshop of the Centre for Statistics, Bielefeld, October 2017
"Match-Fixing in the Italian Serie B - An Empirical Approach Using Flexible Regression", 9th ESEA European Conference on Sport Economics, Paderborn, August 2017
"Match-Fixing in the Italian Serie B – An Empirical Approach Using Flexible Regression", Workshop of the Centre for Statistics, Bielefeld, May 2017
"Detecting match-fixing in football - an analysis of the Bundesliga and 3. Liga in Germany", Statistics Seminar Series, Bielefeld, January 2017